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I believe you once told me "and so it begins", did you ever think you would have so much time and money invested in your pickup? I already have a few rock chips in my paint and I have decided to not worry about it. I live six miles out in the country so I drive gravel roads daily. It gets driven more than my new Colorado. I have had a lot of compliments about the paint job simply because it turned out decent and I did it myself. It's a good feeling. It looks like you are doing a great job, can't wait to see the final product.

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Haven't done much this month, too cold and nasty or I've been exhausted from work.

In the FWIW dept.-

I mounted the seats just to get them off the garage floor. For those of us who have taken the seats out too many times, we know what a PITA it is with the nuts and studs. Can't fit a deep socket over the stud because it hits the bottom of the seat (bench seat), wrench falls of nut every turn........

My solution is coupler nuts or deep nuts, covers the entire stud so that stud will not rust ahead of the nut making it a b*@$£ to get the nut off and end up turning the stud out.

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Companies like idit and Flaming River use a bezel that is crowned and makes up the difference where the switched replaces the key cylinder. Whatever they do, they ain't telling me, so I had to come up with my own way of mounting it. The hole is just slightly larger than the switch itself.

I ground off the points of the nut enough to press it in the hole. I used JB Weld to epoxy it in.

Use a syringe to apply a bead around the top.

I used heat to melt down the JB Weld.

Tomorrow I'll sand the epoxy down smooth and begin sanding out the 'lock' and the arrow off the housing.

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I need to rewire the ignition circuit, the stock ignition switch will be gone, I need to make certain everything works before I eliminate the switch. That leads me to the fuse block, I picked up a good one today. I also ordered all new connectors from Del City that should be here on Monday.

I've got a new Ford brake light switch and new door switches. I've already spent some time eliminating some of the unwanted cluster-F from under the dash.

I'm currently looking for a set of 97+ clutch/brake pedals, I want to swap those out before the column goes in.

I don't have a set yet but below is a 97 set.

Eye Candy-

I stopped off at Performance Products, found a little something to keep me motivated.